Original Literature of the Callichthyidae

This page contains the references of all papers including original
descriptions of all callichthyid taxa listed in the Complete
Catalogue of species. It is intended to be complete and includes
all papers published up to September, 1995. I would appreciate notice
of any errors and omissions that you may find. Thank you.

Gronow, L.T. 1854. In. J.E. Gray (ed). Catalogue of fish collected and described by Laurence Theodore Gronow, now in the British Museum. London, i-vii + 1-196p.

Günther, A.C.L.G. 1864. Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Physostomi, conatining the families Siluridae, Characinidae, Haplochitonidae, Sternoptychidae, Scopelidae, Stomiatidae in the collection of the British Museum. v.5 i-xxii + 1-455p.

Hoedeman, J.J. 1952a. Notes on the ichthyology of Surinam (Dutch Guiana). The catfish genera Hoplosternum and Callichthys, with key to the genera and groups of the family Callichthyidae. Beaufortia, 12:1-12.

Nijssen, H. 1971. Two new species and one new subspecies of the South American catfish genus Corydoras (Pisces, Siluriformes, Callichthyidae). Beaufortia, 19(250):89-98.

Nijssen, H. 1972. Records of the catfish genus Corydoras from Brazil and French Guiana with descriptions of eight new species (Pisces, Siluriformes, Callichthyidae). Neth. Journ. Zool., 21(4):412-433.

Nijssen, H. & I.J.H. Isbrücker, 1967. Notes on the Guiana species of Corydoras Lacépède, 1803, with descriptions of seven new species and designation of a neotype for Corydoraspunctatus (Bloch, 1794). (Pisces, Siluriformes, Callichthyidae). Zool. Meded., 42(5):21-50.

Nijssen, H. & I.J.H. Isbrücker, 1971. Two new species of the catfish genus Corydoras from Brazil and Peru (Pisces, Siluriformes, Callichthyidae). Beaufortia, 18(239):183-189.

Sands, D. 1990. Two new species of Corydoras. Aquarist & Pondkeeper, 55:26-29.

Sands, D. 1995. Four new Corydoras (Callichthyidae) species from upper Negro River tributaries and a range extension, together with a discussion of C. bicolor Nijssen & Isbrücker. Freshwater and Marine Aquarium Magazine, 18(7):8-12, 14, 16, 17.

Weitzman, S.H. 1964. One new species and two redescriptions of catfishes of the South American callichthyid genus Corydoras. Proc. U.S. nat. Mus., 116(3498):115-126.

Weitzman, S.H. & H. Nijssen, 1970. Four new species and one new subspecies of the catfish genus Corydoras from Ecuador, Colombia and Brazil (Pisces, Siluriformes, Callichthyidae). Beaufortia, 18(233):119-132.

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